Ethernet is on the verge of one of its biggest makeovers in some time. Before the end of the year, five different IEEE 802.3 task forces are scheduled to finish their work on Ethernet-related ...

The 40G/100G Ethernet standard has been ratified, the first specification to simultaneously utilize two new Ethernet speeds. The IEEE 802.3ba standard was ratified last Thursday, according to the IEEE ...

Global standards body the IEEE cannot decide whether the next Ethernet standard will be 40Gb or 100Gb because it's members, which include rival networking vendors such as Cisco and Nortel, are ...

Cat5 cables were the best option for wired networking (also called Ethernet) for a long time. But since the release of Cat6, that's changed. Cat6 is now considered the minimum standard for networking, ...

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.’s (IEEE) 802.3 Ethernet standards group approved the final draft of the 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard this week, clearing the way for vendors ...

Ethernet is ubiquitous—it is the core technology that defines the Internet and serves to connect the world in ways that people could not imagine even one generation ago. HPC clusters are working on ...

Ethernet technology that launched the personal computer into networking is 37 years old, but just as significantly, the IEEE 802 standards committee that made Ethernet a reality and that will steer it ...

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Leading IT vendors have proposed a new Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) standard to the T11 Committee of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The new FCoE specification is designed to ...

Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbit/sec. Ethernet to 1Gbit/sec. Ethernet — and now to 10Gbit/sec. Ethernet ...

Robert Metcalfe, David Boggs, and their associates really started something back in 1973 when they invented Ethernet. It started out as just one of many contenders for LAN supremacy and essentially ...

The 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard, after three years of work, has become official and is helping to pave the way for broader adoption of the networking technology. The IEEE Standards Association ...